• S8E103: Composition the Charlotte Mason Way with Karen Glass

  • Jan 30 2025
  • Length: 53 mins
  • Podcast

S8E103: Composition the Charlotte Mason Way with Karen Glass

  • Summary

    • Today on The New Mason Jar podcast, Dawn moderates a discussion between host Cindy Rollins and guest Karen Glass, veteran homeschool mom and member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory
    • Karen and Cindy talk about narration and composition in the Charlotte Mason paradigm, beginning with a little background on Karen’s new book, The Art of Composition
    • Why Cindy has always said that parents don’t need a writing program and Karen’s response
    • Cindy’s concern for parents to remember to focus on ideas in narration over the form of composition
    • Karen’s thoughts on the building blocks of narration as the foundation of writing and composition
    • How Karen came to see that she had developed a sort of philosophy of writing as a conversation
    • Cindy talks about distinguishing between narration and summaries of a text
    • Karen shares some encouragement for moms with struggling narrators

    To see the full show notes for this episode, including quotes and book links, please visit https://thenewmasonjar.com/103/.

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